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• n  a Shakespearean scholar
• a  of or relating to William Shakespeare or his works

• Shakespearian
• Shakespearean

News & Articles

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• Trust Me, Assigning Summer Reading Is Totally Pointless
  I am all for torturing children. As the overlord of a 9 th  grade classroom, I forced them to memorize sections of  The Aeneid , socked them with the one-two punch of  The Odyssey  and  The Iliad  and finished them off on a Shakespearian rack. Let them suffer, I say.        
  June 13, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire

Quotes

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• Geoffrey Rush in New York Times
  What I love most is the play's brazen theatricality - it was like Ionesco was throwing great gobs of phosphorus and paint at the canvas and dishing up a faux Molière with wisps of Shakespearian allusion all the way through it,Mr. Rush said....
• Trent Lott in ABC News
  Even in the Senate when he used to heckle us for doing stupid things, which we usually were, it was not with Shakespearian flare,Lott said.
• Thomas Friedman in theTrumpet.com
  The Middle East has gotten itself tied into such an impossible knot,Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times, "that biblical references or Shakespearian quotations simply don't suffice anymore to describe how impossibly tangled politics...